Greek Dress: A Study of the Costumes Worn in Ancient Greece, from Pre-Hellenic Times to the Hellenistic Age (Classic Reprint)

The object of this book is to give a continuous account of the dress worn by the people inhabiting Greek lands, from the earliest times of which we have any record down to the Hellenistic age. The first chapter stands somewhat apart from the rest, since it deals with the costume of the race which occupied the gean shores before the real Hellenic races arrived on the scene, and of which we have abundant remains in Crete and elsewhere within the JE gean area. The remains found at Mycenae, Tiryns, and other so-called Mycensan sites, seem to be the last efforts of this dying civilization, which was replaced in the period of invasion and conquest recorded in the Homeric poems. I have been unable to trace any continuous development from the dress of this pre-H ellenic people to that of classic Greece, and the marked difference in the type of costume between the two periods bears out the theory of a difference of race.
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